UPROAR IN THE DAIL

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1933, Page 9

UPROAR IN THE DAIL

DE VALERA DENOUNCED

COUNTER ALLEGATIONS

United Presi Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. DUBLIN, September .28. Heated exchanges bctwoen representatives of opposing parties marked the debate on the motion of censure. The Dail was crowded, and the atmosphere was tense. A dozen deputies wore blue shirts and black ties. Mr. ,F. McDermott condemned the Government's oppressive measures enforcing the Public Safety Act, and said the powers of life and death should not be handed to a few military officers unless on grounds of overwhelming necessity. No crimes could be proved against the National Guard. Labour's action in opposing the motion, was contemptible and degrading. Mr. W. Norton retorted that it was impossiblo to overlook the- military character of the Guard, whoso salute was borrowed from Hitler. General O'Duffy's speeches were those of' a would-bo dictator. '-■ NOT GOING TO ALLOW CIVIL , WAR. Mr. P. J. Ruttledge said the Government had not attempted to interfere with political movements, .but would not tolerate semi-military movements. They were not going to allow civil war to develop. The blue shirt was a military emblem. Dr. T. O'Higgins interposed: The Government sees red when it sees blue. Tho debate flared up when the President, Mr. de Valera, interjected that the Government had definite information that General R. J. Mulcahy recently had conversations at Glasgow with tho British Minister of War. General Mulcahy indignantly demanded a tribunal to investigate tho charge. Mr. de Valera rose and was greeted by Opposition uproar and shouts of "Don't wriggle, don't be a coward." His voico was drowned in the\pandemonium. Finally he declared that he welcomed General Malcahy's statement as the last thing he wanted to hear was that the Government's information was correct. He gladly agreed to the tribunal. ' Mr. do Valera emphasised that the enforcement of the Public Safety Act was inevitable in view of the condition of the country. The Government had. tried .a policy of patience. ATTITUDE OF THE 1.8.A. Dealing with the 1.R.A., Mr. de Valera said this was a movement built up in the past,<but it was a different thing dealing with a recent movement lika the Army Comrades' Association. Mr. de Valera denied Mr. P.'Hogan's charge that the Public Safety Act had .been enforced at the behest of the I.R.A. General Mulcahy told tho Press that he had had no conversations with Lord Hailsham. .There was not a tittle of truth in Mr. de Valera's charge.